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Manifestations
of God’s Love
Allah’s love is translated in His attributes of forgiveness, compassion, and mercy. While His love is bestowed lavishly on those who earned it, His mercy is unconditional.
You receive it whether you are an obedient person, a sinner, or even a pagan or idolater. If a non-believer sincerely asks for God’s help or protection in an emergency, he gets it, although God knows he will turn back to sin as soon as he is rescued.
Despite this, he is given an unconditional dose of God’s infinite mercy that he may find the right path: When trouble touches a man, he cries unto Us (in all postures), lying down on his side, or sitting, or standing. But when We have solved his trouble, he passes on his way as if he had never cried to Us for a trouble that touched him! Thus do the deeds of transgressors seem fair in their eyes!
وَإِذَا مَسَّ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ ٱلضُّرُّ دَعَانَا لِجَنۢبِهِۦٓ أَوْ قَاعِدًا أَوْ قَآئِمًۭا فَلَمَّا كَشَفْنَا عَنْهُ ضُرَّهُۥ مَرَّ كَأَن لَّمْ يَدْعُنَآ
إِلَىٰ ضُرٍّۢ مَّسَّهُۥ ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ زُيِّنَ لِلْمُسْرِفِينَ مَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ ١٢
"And if misfortune touch a man he crieth unto Us, (while reclining) on his side, or sitting or standing, but when We have relieved him of the misfortune he goeth his way as though he had not cried unto Us because of a misfortune that afflicted him. Thus is what they do made (seeming) fair unto the prodigal."
— M. Pickthall
(Yunus 10:12)
On the other hand, believers who follow through with good deeds receive special blessings from Allah: happiness and contentment in this life — even in the midst of trials and tests — and reward in the hereafter for holding on to their faith under pressure.
Allah
loves them because they have shown their love to Him practically.
